| The reproduction shown above is found in Livres dans de Riches Reliures des Seizième, Dix-Septième, Dix-Huitième et Dix-Neuvième Siècle by Édouard RAHIR, Paris 1910. You could not find a more Dubuisson Dubuisson, the decorative binding here is covering Dubuisson's own 1757 publication Armorial des principales maisons et familles du royaume. That didn't faze Seymour de Ricci when he was writing his French signed bindings in the Mortimer L. Schiff Collection. Volume I [- III] § IV: British and miscellaneous signed bindings published in 1935. We find in Volume 1 signed binding No 15, which was not signed BTW, and Ricci attributed the binding anyway to Padeloup. Below I show in Comparative Diagram 1, Ricci's reproduction 15 compared with the Rahir 217, below this I include Ricci's text for number 15. |
| In Ricci's number 15 text you can see where he made some terrible mistakes, first he thought the bird tool was the same one that Derome le jeune was to use later (proof that he could not tell one bird tool from another) and he assumed that the inner dentelle roulette was the same one that Derome used many years later, again false, but fortunately for us he shows this inner dentelle. |
| Fortunately I finally remembered Ricci 15, and at the time when I detailed the 15 binding, I remember thinking that the inner dentelle was rather mysterious, it did not strike me as a Dubuisson roulette and was similer to the Derome roulette (although the units are smaller in size). I said previously that I do not remember Dubuisson using such a roulette, false here it is! and in this example almost certainly from 1757 or 1758. Now this was a huge AH HA moment as soon as I saw it again, I was sure that this was what we were searching for. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3, we can see the matching details within these roulette examples, here is proof that the mosaic bindings with this inner dentelle roulette were decorated by Dubuisson. |
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